Jennie Thlunaut
Tlingit weaver credited with single-handedly keeping the tradition alive in Alaska during a period of decline in interest in native crafts
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Ada Thomas
Chitimacha basketmaker
Lucinda Toomer
African-American quilter
Nellie Mae Rowe
A creative and resourceful self-taught artist, Nellie Mae Rowe gained national recognition for her work during the last decade of her life.
Nancy Azara
American sculptor, painter, and educator
Dot Peters
Respected Aboriginal Australian Elder who worked tirelessly for many years in the eastern region, raising awareness of Aboriginal issues and strengthening the community.
Teresita Fernández
Teresita Fernández, recipient of a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, is a sculptor and visual artist whose works—often large in scale and inspired by landscape and natural phenomena—explore issues of perception and seeing.
Emily Muir
Emily Lansingh Muir, the first woman to serve on the US Commission of Fine Arts, was a painter who drew her inspiration from the life and landscape of coastal Maine.
Rebecca Buffum Spring
New Jersey’s Rebecca Buffum Spring (1811-1911) founded the middle-class utopian communities of The North American Phalanx at Red Bank as well as the Raritan Bay Union at Perth Amboy.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a leading advocate for land rights and reconciliation, and in 1964 published the first modern poetry book by an Aboriginal Australian woman.